Anna Margaretta Larpent

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AML wrote a diary from the age of fifteen, which extended to span fifty years of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. She became a commentator on every kind of social and cultural activity: especially, in view of her husband's post as Licenser of Plays, on the theatre.
Photograph of a painting of Anna Margaretta Larpent by Sir Martin Archer Shee. Larpent is seated in a red upholstered chair, with stacked books in the background. She is wearing a gauzy white dress with a blue sash around the waist. She has a wide halo of curly hair with a blue band tied around it.

Milestones

1758

AML was born at Pera, a suburb of Constantinople in Turkey.
Brewer, John. The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century. Farrar Straus Giroux.
57-8
Vickery, Amanda. The Gentleman’s Daughter: Women’s Lives in Georgian England. Yale University Press.
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1773

The fifteen-year-old Anna Margaretta Porter (later Larpent) began to keep a daily diary.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

July 1830

AML closed the diary she had kept since 1773; her last passage describes the business of disposing of the archive of play manuscripts which is now the Larpent Collection in the Huntington Library .
Larpent, Anna Margaretta. A Woman’s View of Drama. Adam Matthew.
July 1830
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.

4 March 1832

AML died at the home of her son George and his wife, Putney Park.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Biography

Birth and Background

1758

AML was born at Pera, a suburb of Constantinople in Turkey.
Brewer, John. The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century. Farrar Straus Giroux.
57-8
Vickery, Amanda. The Gentleman’s Daughter: Women’s Lives in Georgian England. Yale University Press.
379

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